What Happened in Aug 1943

Prisoners at Treblinka Nazi Concentration Camp Stage a Revolt, Allowing Several Hundred to Escape

Jewish inmates organized a resistance group in Treblinka in early 1943. When camp operations neared completion, the prisoners feared they would be... Read more

John F. Kennedy's Boat, the PT-109, is Sunk by the Amagiri

Conflicting statements have been made as to whether the destroyer captain had spotted and steered towards the boat; author Donovan, who interviewed... Read more

Szczurowa Massacre

The massacre in Szczurowa was the murder of 93 Romani people (also known as Gypsies), including children, women and the elderly, by German Nazi... Read more

First Phase of the Battle of Smolensk (1943)

After a day of probing, the goal of which was to determine whether German troops would choose to withdraw or not from the first set of trenches,... Read more

Ronald Reagan Appears as Johnny Jones in "This is the Army"

The splashy, star-studded This is the Army is based on the Irving Berlin Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was a reworking of... Read more

Operation Cottage

Operation Cottage was a tactical maneuver during the Aleutian Islands campaign. In the operation, which took place on August 15, 1943, Allied... Read more

First Quebec Conference is Held

The conference also established a new theatre of war in South East Asia, with Lord Mountbatten as commander, and reached an agreement to dissuade... Read more

Second Stage of the Battle of Smolensk (1943)

By mid-August, the situation on the Eastern Front had changed as the Red Army started a general offensive, beginning with the Belgorod-Kharkov... Read more

Lower Dnieper Offensive Begins

The Lower Dnieper Offensive (also known as the "Battle of the Lower Dnieper") of took place in 1943 during the Second World War. It was one of the... Read more